Question for military Reservists: "Can you earn points after you're retired?"
I think the answer to this question is "No", but our crack military research team is having a darn hard time coming up with the reference. We probably know the answer, but we haven't been able to prove it.
Here's the question:
When a Reservist is retired awaiting pay (known as "gray area"), can they earn still more retirement points for online courses, or for anything else?
A reader is planning to take the courses anyway, and he's wondering if he can get more points for them.
Another example would be providing military honors for servicemembers & veteran's funerals. Someone might prefer to do only that activity, and it might be important enough to them to do it even if they're retired. So as long as they're doing it anyway, could they get points?
Of course this benefit would require that the Reserve HQ re-open a retirement file and start adding points to it. Earning points might also be a privilege only for those who are willing to risk being mobilized. (And before you point out the Inactive Ready Reserve, I personally know of two IRRs who were mobilized after 9/11.) The bureaucratic inconvenience is the main reason that we experts think the answer is "No."
I've asked several local Reservists (including a Reserve recruiter) and a few gray-area Reservists, and I've e-mailed AUSN.org-- but nobody's heard of anything like this.
Have any of you servicemembers or veterans ever heard of any Reservist who was able to do this? Better still, any idea where we'd look up the service or DoD instruction for it?
I think the answer to this question is "No", but our crack military research team is having a darn hard time coming up with the reference. We probably know the answer, but we haven't been able to prove it.
Here's the question:
When a Reservist is retired awaiting pay (known as "gray area"), can they earn still more retirement points for online courses, or for anything else?
A reader is planning to take the courses anyway, and he's wondering if he can get more points for them.
Another example would be providing military honors for servicemembers & veteran's funerals. Someone might prefer to do only that activity, and it might be important enough to them to do it even if they're retired. So as long as they're doing it anyway, could they get points?
Of course this benefit would require that the Reserve HQ re-open a retirement file and start adding points to it. Earning points might also be a privilege only for those who are willing to risk being mobilized. (And before you point out the Inactive Ready Reserve, I personally know of two IRRs who were mobilized after 9/11.) The bureaucratic inconvenience is the main reason that we experts think the answer is "No."
I've asked several local Reservists (including a Reserve recruiter) and a few gray-area Reservists, and I've e-mailed AUSN.org-- but nobody's heard of anything like this.
Have any of you servicemembers or veterans ever heard of any Reservist who was able to do this? Better still, any idea where we'd look up the service or DoD instruction for it?
